Not One Nurse in the United States – Not One

“We could not find a nurse to join the Faculty
in defense of the federal government’s prohibition
of marijuana for medical use, after advertising for
months. This is not surprising since nurses are
patient advocates and science orientated.”

Al Byrne, co-founder of Patients Out of Time,
speaking for the Planning Committee of The Fourth
may also be quoted as saying, “When it comes to sound
bites and myths about cannabis federal spokesmen are
everywhere, when invited to defend their comments in
a forum of their peers they become invisible.”

While Congress continues to publicly display, as a body,
ignorance of the therapeutic applications of cannabis
the United States medical community does not.

Led this year by the University of California, San Francisco,
School of Medicine and the California Nurses Association
this fourth in a biennial series of cannabis conferences,
designed to educate health care professionals and patients
about medicinal cannabis, emerges as a public, accredited,
scientific rebuttal to the Bush administration’s criminalizing
of sick and dying cannabis using, United States citizens.

“If cannabis is not medicine then the entire leadership of
the American Nurses Association and its membership are
in error and the Congress of the US, almost all lawyers,
are correct. Consider the source, then you decide which
group has the credibility to pass an opinion on this medical
issue”,Mary Lynn Mathre, RN, MSN, CARN, author, addictions
specialist and President of Patients Out of Time.

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